Salutary

//ˈsæljətɛɹi// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial.

    "salutary advice"

  2. 2
    Promoting good health and physical well-being; wholesome; curative.

    "In the living state, the body is observed to […] reject what is noxious; to select what is salutary; […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health wordnet

Synonyms

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beneficialhealthfuladvantageousaidfulbenevolentbenign

Example

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"The European fuel protests of 2000 were an excellent example of what will happen when we are deprived of our petrol and a salutary warning."

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French salutaire and its source, Latin salutaris (“healthful”), from salus (“health”).

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